{"id":20615,"date":"2012-08-20T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=20615"},"modified":"2013-10-13T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T17:58:53","slug":"doing-the-laundry-as-if-i-was-doing-it-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doing-the-laundry-as-if-i-was-doing-it-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the laundry as if I was doing it for God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My roommate has been down with a respiratory bug for a week and sleeping most of the time. \u00a0He alternates between sleeping and hacking. \u00a0He moves from the bed to the couch and back. \u00a0As he slept on the couch, I went into his room and put on some Native American music so he could get a healing as he dozed. \u00a0I went into the office to work but could only think of the mound of laundry he had in the corner. \u00a0“How much of the clothes all around your room need to be washed?” \u00a0I asked last week. \u00a0“All of them,” was the reply. \u00a0I’m a firm believer in whoever is bugged by a mess should resolve the mess. \u00a0 Since I found his laundry bothered me, I decided I could either complain to him about it and coax him to jump through that hoop, or I could just do the laundry and only do it if I could be happy about doing it. \u00a0Not if I felt like he should be doing it. And if in the spirit of seva we are doing all actions for the Beloved, then I’d actually be doing God’s laundry and how cool an honor is it to get to do that?<\/em> \u00a0And if we are all truly One, why does it matter who does what and who gets the credit for anything? <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Of course, as I began do throw laundry in, I was paying too much attention to what I should sort. \u00a0I didn’t notice until I was pulling the two loads out of the dryer that I realized only half of it might have been dirty laundry. \u00a0The rest was just clothes he never put away. \u00a0I had to laugh, but what great feng shui to wash every item of clothing in that room, which is the prosperity corner of the house. \u00a0He was still asleep on the couch as I began putting his clothes away in the empty dresser drawers. \u00a0He must be like me in my office: \u00a0I want to see everything all at once, all in one layer, not put away in a drawer or file until the matter was addressed. \u00a0To each their own.<\/p>\n

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